Second, with what translations we do have, we run into some anti-biblical errors, as mentioned in this article.įor example, the Book of Jasher makes mention of snow pre-Flood, even though the earth had never seen precipitation until the time of Noah ( Genesis 7), and several other issues of the chronology of what happens in the Bible, versus what the Book of Jasher says. After all, if God had wanted it included, he would have found a way for historians to preserve the text over time, as they would've helped Scriptural canonicity as an utmost importance. Therefore, scholars left it out of the Scriptural canon. However, because we don’t have the original copy, and only a suspect “translation” was created in the 1700s, we don’t know exactly what the Book of Jasher originally said. In essence, the books of the Pentateuch and a little beyond, with some contradictions and variations mentioned below. We do have a number of translations (including a very false one created in the 1700s), but we don’t truly know if the copy we have now reflects the original writing.īut from what we do have, the Book of Jasher, similar to other apocryphal books, covers the events from the Creation through the death of Joshua. The Book of Jasher, otherwise known as the Book of Just Ones, has likely, in its original form, been lost to time.
What Do We Know about the Book of Jasher? We’ll dive into these questions in this article. If the biblical writers made mention of the book, why don’t we include it in the Bible? Do we have any other instances of biblical authors placing secular texts in the Bible, or making mention of them, and what do we actually know about this book? Interestingly enough, the Book of Jasher does receive a couple of shout-outs in the Bible ( Joshua 10:13, 2 Samuel 1:18-27). Today’s article will cover the Book of Jasher, another book in the Apocrypha. Some of these books include the Book of Enoch and The Book of Jubilees, among others. Meaning, these texts were written around (or a little after) biblical events, may make mention of biblical events but are not considered part of the Bible. In previous articles on, we’ve discussed something known as the Apocrypha: a group of texts that aren’t canonical but have a thread related to canonical biblical writings.
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